Darla Perritt (darlperr) from 192.239.151.142 at 04/11/97 02:25PM
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    In "The Meal" the children the poem is about live in a home without love and full of emptiness. In the first line, "they have washed their faces until they are pale" makes me think of children who are overly disciplined and underly loved.The poor children in this poem have to be perfect and act like adults when they are probably only small.